| Company | ImageShack |
| Website | yfrog.com |
| Blog | blog.yfrog.com/bl... |
| @yfrog | |
| Stage | Live |
| Launched | 2/09 |
Yfrog is a website and Twitter service that allows users to share photos and videos on Twitter and to broadcast their life as it happens. It is free for users, and no registration is required. For Twitter users, videos or pictures can be shared with followers in just two clicks.
Yfrog was launched in February 2009 by ImageShack on top of the same infrastructure that supports its hosting service. According to the website measurement service Quantcast in July 2010, yfrog receives nearly 25 million monthly visits from over 11 million monthly unique visitors.
Users can upload media to yfrog in many ways:
From a file on a computer From URL By using yfrog’s webcam feature to capture a photo or video By sending an email containing a file as an attachment By using one of the hundreds of tools and applications that support yfrog, including Twitter for iPhone, Tweetdeck, and Twitterrific Developers can use yfrog’s APIs to upload media.
Photos and videos on yfrog can be shared in many ways: To social sites including Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, and more Via Email Via links and embed codes Yfrog facts:
It is built on ImageShack’s hosting infrastructure platform
Yfrog provides secure login via Twitter’s credential service (oAuth)
It is designed for real-time, rapid uploads and sharing
Users can post bigger photos and longer videos
High-res photos of up to 5MB
Videos of up to 20 minutes long
